Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.